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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:21

‘Or has the potter not a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel to honour, and another to dishonour?’ He now illustrates his position in terms of a potter who has a lump of clay and can use it both to make an ‘honourable’ vessel and to make a ‘dishonourable’ one. Which he makes is solely up to the potter’s discretion. So a potter may take his piece of clay, and set aside one part to produce an ornamental vase, and another part to produce a crude chamber pot. No one... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:22

‘What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted to destruction,’ Paul then directly applies his illustration of the Potter to God Himself. The idea of likening God to a Potter comes directly from the Old Testament Scriptures (Isaiah 45:9; Isaiah 29:16; Jeremiah 18:6). And the idea behind it is that just as a Potter chooses what he will do with what he makes, so in the same way no man has the right to challenge God’s... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:23-24

‘And that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand to glory, even us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?’ Having purposed that certain vessels would be made in such a way that they were fitted for destruction, God also purposed to make known the riches of His glory on vessels which were prepared with mercy in mind, vessels which He prepared beforehand for glory (like ‘honourable vessels’ such as... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:25

‘As he says also in Hosea (Greek - Osee), “I will call that my people, who were not my people, and her beloved, who was not beloved”.’ Paul then cites Hosea in order to demonstrate that it has always been God’s intention that some who were ‘not My people’ should become ‘My people’. That some who were not beloved and elect, would become beloved and elect. (In many cases ‘beloved’ and ‘elect’ were seen as synonyms). He declares that in Hosea we read, ‘I will call that My people who were not My... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:26

‘And it shall be, that in the place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” there will they be called “sons of the living God”.’ He then further cites Hosea 1:10 which asserts that those who were ‘not My people’ would at some stage become ‘sons of the living God’. If we see Paul as referring this to Gentiles, as he probably is, then he is declaring that Scripture teaches that some from among the Gentiles, will be called ‘sons of the living God’ (compare 2 Corinthians 6:16 with 18).... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:27-28

‘And Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved, for the Lord will execute his word on the earth, finishing it and cutting it short.” ’ He then cites from Isaiah 10:22 a (supplemented by Hosea 1:10) a verse concerning Israel which asserts that even though Israel should become very numerous, only a remnant of them would be saved, and this, as Isaiah 10:23 reveals, is as a result of the judgment of God on... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:29

‘And, as Isaiah has said before, “Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had become as Sodom, and had been made like to Gomorrah”.’ This picture is then seen as confirmed by Isaiah 1:9, where, apart from ‘a seed’ left to them by God (the seed of Abraham mentioned in Romans 9:7? The holy seed of Isaiah 6:12), all Israel were to be destroyed by God’s judgment in the same way as Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed. Once again those who were acceptable to God, and therefore saved, were... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:30-31

‘What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith, but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at the law.’ ‘What shall we say then?’ is a typical Pauline introduction to the next phase in his argument (Romans 4:1; Romans 6:1; Romans 7:7), although at the same time certainly also connecting up with the previous discussion. It summarises the situation from a new point of... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:30-33

The Eternal Destiny Of All People, Both Jew And Gentile, Is Based On Belief In God’s Messiah, Jesus Christ. (9:30-10:21). There is now a vast change in Paul’s argument, for it will be noted that from Romans 9:30 to Romans 10:17 Paul lays huge emphasis on faith and on believing in Jesus Christ, this in contrast with Romans 9:6-29 where they are not mentioned. Faith in Jesus Christ as the Messiah undergirds this whole passage. The Greek words for faith and/or believing occur in almost every... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:32-33

‘For what reason? Because (they sought) not by faith, but as it were by works. They stumbled at the stone of stumbling, even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence, and he who believes on him will not be put to shame.” And why did they fail to ‘arrive at the Law’? That is fail to fulfil it to the Law’s satisfaction. It was because they had sought to fulfil it in the wrong way. They had thought that they could achieve it ‘by works’, that is, by hard... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:22

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:23-24

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:27-28

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:29

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:30-31

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:30-33

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Romans 9:32-33

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